How teaching surgeons communicate: An analysis of intraoperative discourse among male and female surgeons.

Background: Our objective was to compare the use of agentic ("I") and communal ("we") spoken intraoperative discourse between male and female attending and resident surgeons.

Methods: We analyzed transcripts involving attending and resident surgeons from 5 specialties at a single Midwestern academic teaching hospital. We adapted and expanded Grebelsky-Lichtman's codes, assessed rater agreement, and systematically coded transcripts for agentic and communal terms.

The impact of skin color and tone on histamine iontophoresis and Doppler flowmetry measurements as a pharmacodynamic biomarker.

The phenotypical manifestations of asthma among children are diverse and exhibit varying responses to therapeutic interventions. There is a need to develop objective biomarkers to improve the characterization of allergic and inflammatory responses relevant to asthma to predict therapeutic treatment responses. We have previously investigated histamine iontophoresis with laser Doppler flowmetry (HILD) as a potential surrogate biomarker that characterizes histamine response and may be utilized to guide the treatment of allergic and inflammatory disease.

Language in the Teaching Operating Room: Expressing Confidence Versus Community.

Objective: Previous work has analyzed residency letters of recommendation for agentic and communal language, but this has not been applied to spoken language. Our objective was to analyze intraoperative spoken language by attending and resident surgeons for the use of agentic and communal language.

Design: We completed a linguistic inquiry and word count (LIWC) analysis on 16 operating room transcripts (total time 615 minutes) between attendings and resident surgeons for categories associated with agentic and communal speech.

Health Literacy Analytics of Accessible Patient Resources in Cardiovascular Medicine: What are Patients Wanting to Know?

Introduction: There remains an increasing utilization of internet-based resources as a first line of medical knowledge. Among patients with cardiovascular disease, these resources often are relied upon for numerous diagnostic and therapeutic modalities. However, the reliability of this information is not fully understood.

Digital Patient Education on Xanthelasma Palpebrarum: A Content Analysis.

Patient education has been transformed using digital media and online repositories which disseminate information with greater efficiency. In dermatology, this transformation has allowed for patients to gain education on common cutaneous conditions and improve health literacy. Xanthelasma palpebrarum is one of the most common cutaneous conditions, yet there is a poor understanding of how digital materials affect health literacy on this condition.